What men really think about male contraception – and could it ever work?

It takes two to tango, as that old chestnut goes, but when it comes to contraception, it’s still mostly thought of as solely the women’s responsibility to bear the brunt of any consequences.

It’s a tale as old as time, with this patriarchal process of thought flavouring even the founding father of medicine’s perspective of childbirth. Dating back to 400 years BC, Hippocrates wrote: ‘When a woman has intercourse, if she is not…